bootloader after ubuntu installation

liverpoolynwa · 04-19-2014, 10:21 PM

so i have an ASUS pc with default windows 7 home premium and uefi. i succesfully installed ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the intention of dual booting win7 and ubuntu. however, when i boot in to my pc, it goes straight to ubuntu and doesnt show boot options i expeccted with win7 and ubuntu. what should i do?

syg00 · 04-19-2014, 11:09 PM

Open a terminal and run the following command (you'll need to enter your password) - you should get messages saying Ubuntu found, and one for Win7 (and maybe one for Windows recovery). Then reboot and see wwhat happens

Code:

sudo update-grub

liverpoolynwa · 04-19-2014, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

Open a terminal and run the following command (you'll need to enter your password) - you should get messages saying Ubuntu found, and one for Win7 (and maybe one for Windows recovery). Then reboot and see wwhat happens

Code:

sudo update-grub

this was the output of the command:

carlos@carlos-X401U:~$ sudo update-grub
[sudo] password for carlos:
Generating grub configuration file ...
Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported.
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
done

what does it mean?

syg00 · 04-20-2014, 12:22 AM

It means it only found Ubuntu - what does this return

Code:

lsblk -f

Ignore the warning - it's just a warning, can be fixed later

liverpoolynwa · 04-20-2014, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

It means it only found Ubuntu - what does this return

Code:

lsblk -f

Ignore the warning - it's just a warning, can be fixed later

return: NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 /boot/efi
├─sda2 /
└─sda3 [SWAP]
carlos@carlos-X401U:~$

syg00 · 04-20-2014, 12:53 AM

You can probably guess for yourself that Win7 has been over-written. Hard to know how that happened - let's just confirm what that disk layout is

Code:

sudo parted /dev/sda print free

liverpoolynwa · 04-20-2014, 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

You can probably guess for yourself that Win7 has been over-written. Hard to know how that happened - let's just confirm what that disk layout is

Code:

sudo parted /dev/sda print free

i think i know how,in the installation options, it said erase peppermint 4 and all files. (i previously isntalled a 32 bit version of peppermint it was faulty since my pc's 64 bit). it didn't say win 7 AND peppermint 4. os i chose it. maybe together with peppermint it was erased.

well, thanks and i appreciate your help in figuring out thsi matter, thanks...